Word: giving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disputed Dr. Lambert's re-findings. He was Alexander S. Horovitz, Manhattan biochemist, who had compounded narcosan out of lipoids (fat-like substances), proteins and vitamins. Narcosan is efficacious, he declared, angrily. English, French, German and Australian doctors were using it. Dr. Lambert's committee did not give it fair trial. But the committee's decision was undisputed in the minds of more U. S. doctors. It was made up of some of the best men in the profession: Menas S. Gregory, neurological director of the psychopathic department of Bellevue Hospital; Stanley R. Benedict of the Cornell...
...awful, the way Mrs. Maurrant is carrying on with that Sankey, who collects money for the Borden milk people. Mrs. Maurrant appears and there is banal chatter. Mr. (Third Floor) Buchanan, whose wife is in laboring pains, says a few words. Mrs. Jones admonishes him to give Mrs. Buchanan plenty of food, 'Remember, she's got two to feed...
...sits on the porch steps and Vincent Jones, taxi-driving son of the Second Floor Joneses, slides over beside her. '' . . . Say, sweetie, I'll give you two bucks if you'll let me snap your garter." He is overheard by Sammy Kaplan, who loves Rose. Kaplan makes a feeble attempt to attack Jones, but Vincent is far too strong, easily spins Sammy to the ground. Mrs. Jones appears. "Now Vincent, you mustn't do that...
...carried on the affair with Christine. But Mary stills her mother's blabbing by telling her that the affair is no news to her; she has known it for months. Boyd and his mistress come to Mary to ask her for a divorce but she contemptuously refuses to give up Boyd and wreck a home for an infatuation. Only when Mary's younger sister, Cecily Reid (Helen Chandler) confesses her own affair with her architect-employer, husband of a woman much older than himself, does Mary consent to a divorce. But Christine has a change of heart, leaves Boyd...
Locker room wit is not out of place in Follow Thru for the plot concerns golf; its hero is a young professional, his romance begins when he agrees to give lessons to a pretty girl and comes to its proper conclusion when she beats a rival in love and .port. The story winds happily about the verandas, hallways, fairways and even the ladies' dressing room in an Elysian country club, encouraged by nymphs of whom none have passed the age of indiscretion, all dancing to Henderson, Brown & de Sylvan melodies...